diff --git a/tools/creating-new-drutopia-site.md b/tools/creating-new-drutopia-site.md
index 44e528b..d274dbb 100644
--- a/tools/creating-new-drutopia-site.md
+++ b/tools/creating-new-drutopia-site.md
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Once you have created and are in this directory, whether `agaric/sites` or `drut
 wget https://gitlab.com/drutopia-platform/build_source/-/raw/master/composer.json
 wget https://gitlab.com/drutopia-platform/build_source/-/raw/master/composer.lock
 wget https://gitlab.com/drutopia-platform/build_source/-/raw/master/.gitignore
-ddev config --docroot=web --project-type=drupal8 --webserver-type=apache-fpm --mariadb-version=10.1 --php-version=7.3 --xdebug-enabled=true --use-dns-when-possible=false --create-docroot
+ddev config --docroot=web --project-type=drupal8 --webserver-type=apache-fpm --mariadb-version=10.1 --php-version=7.4 --xdebug-enabled=true --use-dns-when-possible=false --create-docroot
 ddev start
 ddev composer install
 ```